6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Canned 9/26/18, drunk 10/14/18, thanks TJ.
Very lightly hazy, pale, lemon-blonde. White head is small and fades slowly to a ring.
Smells very cracker-biscuit-heavy with leafy, vegetal, green hops showing some very light mango-nectarine-apricot, but mostly grapefruit (light) and lemon-orange. There's no resin, though and it doesn't even seem like this is a NE yeast, as I'm getting no big fruit esters nor any bubble gum, nor does it look the part, really. Which is fine. Still a pleasant, if somewhat light aroma, but it's clean and well-attenuated, with no alcohol.
In the mouth it's light, with engaging carbonation and good dryness. Hops are a bit dirty and don't give any real juiciness or overly bright notes, but they show pretty average, unexciting citrus and light vegetal notes instead. Malts are crackery, well-attenuated. No flaw or alcohol. Not really a NE IPA, but it's fine and drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2018
at 16:49